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Chicart Bailly and the Specter of Death: Memento Mori in a Sixteenth-Century Estate Inventory
Katherine Baker
Description: The Ivory Mirror: The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe
The Ivory Mirror: The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe
Pulled from the national archives in Paris, the above epigraph’s description of an image of death in ivory can be connected to the literal demise of two once-living beings...
Author
Katherine Baker
PublisherBowdoin College Museum of Art
Copyright© 2017 Bowdoin College
Related print edition pages: pp.107-119
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00238.003
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21007
Chapter subject tags:Christian art and symbolismIvories, RenaissanceIllumination of books and manuscripts, RenaissanceDeath in artMemento mori

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Chicart Bailly and the Specter of Death: Memento Mori in a Sixteenth-Century Estate Inventory